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Lucifer

#4,631 in 2025Boys' name

Bringing light

Lucifer has been given to 488 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,631 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Lucifer, 2025

1 in 151,000

Lucifer over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lucifer: meaning, origin, and history

Bringing light

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lucifer means

Lucifer means “bringing light”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 488 boys were recorded with the name Lucifer between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,088 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,384 in 2020 to #4,631 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,205 in 2015 to #4,631 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Lucifer?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 77,600
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,631
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lucifer sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lucifer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lucifers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lucifer was born before 2020 — so the typical Lucifer is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
61.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
488
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (300).

Is Lucifer rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,900
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,247
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,574
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.4%
Peak was 2021 (70)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,088
2021

Spellings of Lucifer

Lucifer is not the most common spelling — Lucien is, with 95.3% against Lucifer's 4.7%.

  • Lucien95.3%9,993
  • Lucifer4.7%488

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lucifer is used

Across 1910–2025, Lucifer was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 554,589 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in —
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —
  5. 5Utah1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lucifer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lucifer around the world

Where Lucifer ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lucifer by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,631
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,247
Best rank ever
#2,088
2021
Peak year
2021
70 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
488
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Lucifer

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Lucifer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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